![]() ![]() ![]() Where the Red Fern Grows and Summer of the Monkeys are excellent books to use for a classroom novel study and for reading aloud. Will it be his crippled sister's dream of or his dream of owning a rifle and a pony? When he finally has the reward money clutched in his fist, Jay Berry learns how much happiness his money really can buy. With his eyes on purchasing a pony and a rifle, Jay Berry spends the entire summer rounding up the monkeys. Though Jay Berry knows nothing about monkeys, he is determined to bring them in so that he can earn the big reward money offered by the circus. In Summer of the Monkeys, Jay Berry Lee embarks on a hilarious adventure to capture a bunch of monkeys that have escaped from a wrecked circus train. In his efforts to deal with the death of his beloved dogs, Billy digs the graves himself and buries them among the red ferns. Old Dan dies in the claws of a savage bobcat, and Little Ann succumbs to grief for her companion. Old Dan and Little Ann lead Billy to his proudest moment when they win the gold cup in the annual coon hunting contest.īut the joy of Billy's victory is quickly overshadowed by sadness. Listening to his grandfather's stories about the behavior of coons and how to train dogs to hunt, Billy and his dogs become the finest hunting team in the area. Billy Coleman, the main character of Where the Red Fern Grows, works for two years to save enough money to buy two coon dogs. ![]()
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